Jamshedpur — UN urban centre
Jamshedpur: 1,956,840 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #253 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11483; territory: India (IND). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 22.7943, 86.2012. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 762,879 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 897,152 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 987,629 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,131,912 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,269,568 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,433,467 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,564,509 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,681,324 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,800,402 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,912,148 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,956,840 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,004,152 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,035,091 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,055,341 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,069,060 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,066,797 | Projection |
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